I don't think the cut was ideological in nature. I think the program actually was ideological in nature from its inception--not the official languages part, in 1978, that was different; I wouldn't qualify that as ideological.
But on the cut to the whole program, the program had grown into one that was funding one side of the argument to the exclusion of the other, as Mr. Benson said. It's not just a question of one side having limitless resources—i.e., the government—and one side will now have some money to take a challenge. What it means is that the program determines what challenges are brought, and that is what changes the evolution of the law.